The 34 Percent Solution

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. ~Bruce Springsteen The title of today’s post was inspired by Nicholas Meyer’s novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, presented in the form of a dialogue between the storied detective and Sigmund Freud who was enlisted by Dr. Watson and Holmes’ brother Wycroft in hopes of … Read more

ESP Scorecard (Updated)

Revisions appear in RED. Every cohort of approximately 800,000 Americans living in a contiguous geographic area biennially choose someone to represent them in the United States Congress. However, to paraphrase a 1980s meme, “it depends on what the meaning of represent is.” For that matter, it should also depend on what the term “contiguous geographic … Read more

Project 2026

David Drumlin: I know you must think this is all very unfair. Maybe that’s an understatement. What you don’t know is I agree. I wish the world was a place where fair was the bottom line, where the kind of idealism you showed at the hearing was rewarded, not taken advantage of. Unfortunately, we don’t … Read more

It’s Docket Science

You know the old saying, two things can be true at the same time. When it comes to U.S. immigration policy, that number increases six-fold. Consider the following. When you take all of these facts into account, one thing is obvious. ICE is not the answer. Therefore, when the FY2026 funding for ICE comes to … Read more

The ESP Scorecard

Every cohort of approximately 800,000 Americans living in a contiguous geographic area biennially choose someone to represent them in the United States Congress. However, to paraphrase a 1980s meme, “it depends on what the meaning of represent is.” For that matter, it should also depend on what the term “contiguous geographic area” means, but I … Read more